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Orange County Indexed

Will of Daniel Lynch

Will Book E, page 265 · dated 22 October 1831 · proved February 1832

Daniel Lynch named wife Polly and children Sarah Ann and Logan and referenced land purchased from three men.

Kind of paper
Will
Testator
Daniel Lynch (printed DANIEL LYNCH)
Dated
22 October 1831
Proved
February 1832 court
Family named
Polly (wife; may be pregnant); Sarah Ann Lynch (child); Logan Lynch (child)
Executor
Polly (wife)
Witnesses
John Allen; John Horner
Land
tracts of land
Also named
John Horner; Thomas W. Holden; Alves Nichols
In the paper’s words
“may be pregnant”

Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.

Where to find it

  • Orange County Will Book E, page 265.
  • Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 146.
  • Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).
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